More Brontë-related recently published scholar articles:
The Revelation to Jane: Christianity and Apocalypse in Jane Eyre
Claudia McCarron
SIGMA TAU DELTA RECTANGLE
Journal of Creative Writing
Volume 94, 2019, pp. 153-160
In The Madwoman in the Attic, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar write that while Jane Eyre employs “the mythic quest-plot” of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, it lacks that work’s “devout substance”. Not devout, perhaps, but deeply religious: while Charlotte Brontë appropriates biblical typology in a manner that was perplexing (and occasionally infuriating) to her conservative Anglican peers, her novel is still deeply informed by biblical tradition. The novel contains nearly two hundred direct biblical allusions and even more of its plot threads and imagery can be traced to biblical archetypes (Tkacz 3). Jane Eyre is a text as preoccupied with religious truth as it is freedom, feminism, and love, and Brontë’s biblical discourse intersects with these themes in eye-opening and potentially revolutionary ways.
EDIT: The Herald Mail talks about this essay:
McCarron’s paper examines the parallels between “Jane Eyre” and the Book of Revelation. The paper argues that “Jane Eyre” can be read as a female-centered reworking of the biblical book. McCarron said she wrote the paper for a Bible as Literature class in the fall of 2018.
“It actually began as a failure,” she said. “I was struggling to find a critical argument that I was excited to write about.”
Agnes Grey’s Search for Self-Identity in Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Yanti Rahayuningsih
Acuity, Journal of English Language, Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 59-65, 1 (2019)
This study aims to reveal, identify and describe Agnes Grey's search for self-identity. Also, the writer of the thesis wants to show that the situations in Agnes Grey's adolescence period are the same as the real life of the author, Anne Brontë. The research method used is the psychology of literature. The results of the analysis indicated that by using theory from Erik H. Erikson, Agnes Grey found her true self in three stages.
Pet Lamb and Clothed Hyena: Law as an Oppressive Force in Jane Eyre
Alexander Maine
The Student Journal of Professional Practice and Academic Research, Vol 1, No 1 (2019)
Writing in 1864, the literary critic Justin M’Carthy stated that ‘the greatest social difficulty in England today is the relationship between men and women.’ This came at a time of unprecedented social and legal change of the status of women in the 19th Century. A prominent novel of the time concerning such social difficulty is Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre: An Autobiography which attempts to reflect these social difficulties as often resulting from law. As such, the novel may be used as a reflection of the condition of nineteenth century English law as an oppressive force against women. This force is one that enacts morality through legality, and has particular resonance in literature concerning social issues. Jane Eyre will be discussed as a novel that provides insights into women’s experiences in the mid-nineteenth century. Law is represented within the novel as an oppressive force that directly subjugates women, and as such the novel may be regarded as an early liberal feminist work that challenges the condition of law. This article will explore the link between good moral behaviour, and moral madness, the latter being perceived as a threat to the domestic and the law’s response to this threat. It will pick upon certain themes presented by Brontë, such as injustice towards women, wrongful confinement, insanity and adulterous immoral behaviour, to come to the conclusion that the novelist presented law as a method of constructing immorality and injustice, representing inequality and repression.
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